Khóa IELTS FOUNDATION GV: Hồng Hạnh Facebook: HongHanhIELTSMoon.vn IELTS FOUNDATION PLANS & PREDICTIONS - UNIT – ĐỀ VIDEO LỜI GIẢI CHI TIẾT có website MOON.VN [Truy cập tab Tiếng Anh cho Tân sinh viên – Khóa: IELTS FOUNDATION NEWS CAN HELP PREDICT THE FUTURE Researchers say they can use news stories to help predict the future Scientists from the University of Illinois in the USA input over 100 million news articles into a supercomputer for analysis The stories went back as far as 1945 and came from many sources, including the BBC and New York Times The data showed how much unrest and discontent there was in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya before their recent revolutions The computer also saw early indications of the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden before he was captured Researcher Kalev Leetar said the study could now help analysts spot future trouble in potential hotspots around the world Business strategists already a similar thing to advise their clients Leetar explained the importance of news to look into the future: “News gives you incredible information about people, places, and organizations It also tells you about the relationships between them, about how people view each other,” he said Leetar used terabytes of data to look at three key areas One looked at the tone of the journalists’ writing It used 1,500 different emotions to build an assessment of a country’s stability Secondly, it examined geocoding to track references to people’s movement A third technique was network analysis to show how much news channels focused on one place Leetar likened his predictions to weather forecasting, saying: “It's never perfect, but we better than random guessing.” Note: 1000 Gigabytes = Terabyte Exercise Read the article Guess if these statements below are true (T) or false (F) Scientists fed 100 million news articles into a supercomputer The news storied dated back to the late nineteenth century The data gained from the stories helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden Researchers will now be able to forecast trouble in the world Kalev Leetar said news wasn’t such an important information source Researchers used around 500 gigabytes of data in their analysis The project looked at over one thousand different emotions Leetar said his predictions were similar to those of weather forecasts Giáo viên Hồng Hạnh Nguồn Moon.vn - Học để khẳng định Moon.vn Hotline: 0432 99 98 98